#michael-jackson-estate

#michael-jackson-estate

Jackson didn't commission Neverland's Tudor-style main house. That 13,000-square-foot structure, which sits nestled under a collection of magnificent oak trees, was built in 1981 by real estate developer William Bone, from whom the singer bought the property for $19.5 million in 1987. But the changes Jackson made to the 2,600-acre property over the years -- notably, adding a slew of kid-friendly attractions -- markedly changed the place, softening it and shrinking it to less than full-grown scale.

Our love affair had more layers than a lasagna. We were both Italian. Passionate. Intense. Committed to our craft. We both had volcanic tempers. He was a diabolically handsome man who shared my love for film. Their cocaine-dusted romance continued after the film wrapped, and she picked him to direct her in the Broadway musical The Act.

"These payments appear, at least in part, to consist of lavish gratuities bestowed upon already well-compensated counsel," her motion argued. "As painful as it is to say in print, the present records suggest a group of closely-knit, highly-compensated lawyers is exploiting Executors' lack of oversight to skim money from the Estate, in plain view."

Today in history: On Jan. 27, 1984, singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Also on this date: In 1756, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his incandescent electric lamp.

The Boss, who is expecting a baby with his former backup singer Patti Scialfa, closed escrow a few days ago on the property, which a real estate source not involved in the deal described as being like Montecito but only three minutes to downtown Beverly Hills.